By Adam Blade, Cherith Baldry
One boy's trip to aid his village turns into a quest to save lots of the dominion. contains a fearsome new beast in each booklet!
Floods. hunger. worry. this is often what awaits the folks of Avantia's coast if Tom and Elenna can't cease Sepron the ocean Serpent. the massive and terrifying beast lurks in eerie waters. all of the fish have fled and no boats dare to move.
Tom and Elenna meet a mysterious stranger who might carry the main for monitoring down the monster. yet as they trigger in a rickety rowboat, Tom can't aid yet wonder whether they'll prevail so simply this time. . . .
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We’d have to stow enough food to last the two of us for up to five months. It would barely fit in the boat. We arrived at the wholesale supermarket Makro armed with a shopping list, or perhaps more accurately a shopping book. After mulling over our nutritional requirements, we’d done our best to itemize what would be required to get us across the ocean in good health. For breakfast we would rotate among four meals: rice pudding, tapioca pudding, cream of wheat, and oatmeal. Lunches would be dried bread with peanut butter, tuna, preserved meat, or cheese (while it lasted).
The Tagus boasted currents so strong that they changed the geography of the river to form a partially inverted delta. The raised triangle of sediment that usually collects at a river’s mouth was absent. Now the incoming current—intensified by strong tides that accompanied the nearly full moon—was still close to its peak power; it would be impossible to row against. Within a few hours, however, this great force would work in our favour. After storing the last of the food, repacking gear to make it fit in the cramped compartments, and filling water containers, we were ready to go.
General delivery at the post office wouldn’t work because many items were being shipped by courier. The Canadian Embassy in Lisbon flatly refused to accept anything on our behalf. Eventually, we found a hotel that would accept our packages and, after a longer search, we found Mario Almeida, a friend of a friend who lives in Lisbon, who would do the same. “You must come to the airport to pick them up,” the shipping clerk said when the carbon-fibre oars donated to us by the Australian company Croker Oars arrived.